[hobbit] Excluding Hosts from Paging at certain times

[ZanDAhaR]

I've already read all of the man pages online but I still couldnt be 100%
sure about what was can and cant be specified in terms of times.

Also I needed clarification on what exactly the downtime param in the
bb-hosts related to

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kevin grady" <kevin.grady at gmail.com>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Excluding Hosts from Paging at certain times


> If you need more info let me know.
>
> >From the help file:
>
> The first line defines a rule for alerting when something breaks on
> the host "www.foo.com".
> There are two recipients: webmaster at foo.com is notified if it is the
> "http" service that fails, and the notification is repeated once an
> hour until the problem is resolved.
> unixsupport at foo.com is notified if it is the "cpu", "disk" or "memory"
> tests that report a failure. Since there is no "REPEAT" setting for
> this recipient, the default is used which is to repeat the alert every
> 30 minutes.
>
> OK, suppose now that the webmaster complains about getting e-mails at
> 4 AM in the morning. The webserver is not supposed to be running
> between 9 PM and 8 AM, so even though there is a problem, he doesn't
> want to hear about it until 7:30 - that gives him just enough time to
> fix the problem. So you must modify the rule so that it doesn't send
> out alerts until 7:30 AM:
>
> HOST=www.foo.com
> MAIL webmaster at foo.com SERVICE=http REPEAT=1h TIME=*:0730:2100
> MAIL unixsupport at foo.com SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
>
> Adding the TIME setting on the recipient causes the alerts for this
> recipient to be suppressed, unless the time of day is within the
> interval. So with this setup, the webmaster gets his sleep.
>
> What would have happened if you put the TIME setting on the rule
> instead of on the recipient ? Like this:
>
> HOST=www.foo.com TIME=*:0730:2100
> MAIL webmaster at foo.com SERVICE=http REPEAT=1h
> MAIL unixsupport at foo.com SERVICE=cpu,disk,memory
>
> Well, the webmaster would still have his nights to himself - but the
> TIME setting would then also apply to the alerts that go out when
> there is a problem with the "cpu", "disk" or "memory" services. So
> there would not be any mails going to unixsupport at foo.com when a disk
> fills up during the night.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:40:00 +1100, ZanDAhaR <allan at zandahar.net> wrote:
> > Just something else I forgot to mention, we want to send everything to
email
> > such as msgs disk http conn etc, but not send disk, cpu, msgs to the
pager
> > email address
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "ZanDAhaR" <allan at zandahar.net>
> > To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:35 AM
> > Subject: [hobbit] Excluding Hosts from Paging at certain times
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Not sure if this is the right place to be sending this as I've only
just
> > > subscribed and the emails dont quite say exactly where to email but
here
> > > goes.
> > >
> > > We have just upgraded from bb after 5 years or so to hobbit and we're
not
> > > looking back. We have some servers that have to be rebooted on a daily
> > basis
> > > due to some of the poorly written software (not by us) that runs on
them.
> > I
> > > have tred using the DOWNTIME= option on the BB hosts but it only seems
to
> > > ignore the net tests like http, conn etc. The server still has the bb
> > client
> > > installed on it so when the server comes back up the bb client starts
> > before
> > > some of the monitored services start and therefore marks them red and
we
> > get
> > > paged on them.
> > >
> > > Given our worldwide customer base we still want to know about the
issues
> > > 24x7 except for the 10 mins or so when it reboots. BB used to have the
> > > option of putting in something like !host:time:email and it wouldnt
page
> > at
> > > that particular time for that hosts. Just wondering if someone can
suggest
> > > the best way to work around this.
> > >
> > > We have one alert that goes out via email and then to sortof a mailing
> > list,
> > > and then another line that does email-to-pager. I was thinking
something
> > > along the lines of what I have below although I am not sure about the
TIME
> > > statement if you can have comma separated values, ,if you can pass
> > midnight
> > > such as TIME=*:0910:0900
> > >
> > > There is only 4 hosts currently that reboot, one at midnight, two at
9am,
> > > one at 8:30am
> > >
> > > If someone could possible give me a hand it and point me in the right
> > > direction it would be greatly appreciated
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Allan
> > >
> > > #extract of hobbit-alerts.cfg
> > >
> > > $NPSERV=cpu,disk,msgs
> > >
> > > HOST=host1.domain.com
> > >     MAIL emailalret at domain.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 RECOVERED
> > > TIME=*:0010:0000
> > >     MAIL email at pageraddress.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 FORMAT=SMS
> > > EXSERVICE=$NPSERV TIME=*:0010:0000 STOP
> > >
> > > HOST=host2.domain.com
> > >     MAIL emailalret at domain.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 RECOVERED
> > > TIME=*:0000:0900,*:0910:0000
> > >     MAIL email at pageraddress.com COLOR=red,purple REPEAT=15 FORMAT=SMS
> > > EXSERVICE=$NPSERV TIME=*:0000:0900,*:0910:0000 STOP
> > >
> > > HOST=*
> > >     MAIL emailalret at domain.com REPEAT=15 COLOR=red,purple RECOVERED
> > >     MAIL email at pageraddress.com FORMAT=SMS REPEAT=15 COLOR=red,purple
> > > EXSERVICE=$NPSERV
> > >
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